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anoncake on March 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things you can do with a browser in 2020

It's a hack that shouldn't even be necessary. It's none of FB's business whether its window is focussed.

Elv13 on March 20, 2020 [–]

In AwesomeWM (a linux window manager), we have APIs to lie to windows. Telling youtube it is in fullscreen mode when it isn't is very useful. A lot of websites have much better fullscreen / mobile modes.

(disclaimer, I am one of the dev)

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